Dr. Brandi Brimmer, Morehead-Cain Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present a lecture on Friday, Feb. 25, 6:30 pm, in Levitt Hall, Old Main.

This presentation explores how poor Black women used newly opened federal institutions during the Reconstruction era to make claims of citizenship and build new lives for themselves in freedom. Based on an analysis pension files initiated by southern Black women, it will examine how newly freed Black women leveraged their status as Union widows to gain access to U.S. pension bureaucracy.

Sponsored by Office of Campus Equity and Inclusion, and Drake History Department

— Drinda Williams, Office of the Provost